Stevie nicks biography vh1 behind the music
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Wouldn’t You Love to Love Her?
Early in Stephen Davis’s workmanlike unauthorized biography of Stevie Nicks, we witness the circumstances of her most enduring creation’s birth. Twenty-six-year-old Nicks—sick and tired of waitressing; struggling with the controlling behavior of her boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham; fighting to keep their flailing grupp, Buckingham Nicks, alive—was holed up in sound engineer Keith Olsen’s house. High on LSD—“the only time I ever did it,” Nicks says—she spent three straight days listening to Joni Mitchell’s just-released skiva Court and Spark on Olsen’s giant speakers. The record inspired her on both a technical and a thematic level. What Mitchell was describing, with unusual candor, were the perks and pitfalls of being a female rock star. When she heard it, Nicks had a premonition, or received a warning. After she came down, she composed the song that would man the prophecy of megafame real and that she would perform in various versions for decades
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Midweek, and another entry from my earlier journals, espousing the praise of TV biography shows, and in particular, VH1's Behind the Music and a profile of rocker Stevie Nicks:
As with the Arts & Entertainment network&#;s Biography series, VH1&#;s Behind the Music was very fascinating, depending upon who they profiled. I saw profiles on both Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks that were both intriguing, especially the one on Stevie! As the Biography show and magazine tagline states, &#;Every life tells a story,&#; and it is sometimes fascinating finding out the stories BEHIND the hype and celebrity, to see the real person who lives inside the flash and the famous skin.
For instance, with the Stevie Nicks story, I can recall seeing a video of the Fleetwood Mac Mirage tour, and thinking that Stevie didn&#;t seem to be at her best, and thinking she was just allowing herself and her career to slip into the world of drugs &#;
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Stevie Nicks
American singer-songwriter (born )
Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, )[1] is an American singer-songwriter, known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in , helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over million records sold worldwide. Rumours, the band's second album with Nicks, became one of the best-selling albums worldwide, being certified 20× platinum in the US.[2] In , while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard and has reached multiplatinum status.[3] She has released eight studio albums as a solo artist and seven with Fleetwood Mac, selling a certified total of 65 million copies in the U.S. alone.[